At the beginning of his talk, Elder K. Brett Nattress asked "If all that your children knew of the gospel came from you—as their only source—how much would they know?" I don't have kids yet, but I have a mother who, at the very least, taught me one very important thing about God: He is real. My mother has a strong testimony of this. She has, on multiple occasions, shared an experience in which she had literally felt God's influence in her life. I know that she knows for certain that God is real.
I know a good deal more about God than merely that He exists, but it's hard to pin down what I've learned from my mother. I'm sure that it's a lot. Even just through this blog and the comments and conversations that have stemmed from it, I've learned a lot about the Gospel from my mother. But the one thing that I can pin down as having learned from her is also the most fundamental thing about it. I know that God lives and loves me, even if for no other reason than that I know that she knows that He lives and loves her.
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